Good evening, Kibitzers! I usually accuse air travel of wearing me out, but maybe it’s travel of any kind, or maybe I’m just getting old. To be clear, I am definitely getting old, but is that enough to explain how tired I was today (Monday as I write), after driving back Sunday from Philadelphia?
This year I was the worst photojournalist ever. I kept going places and seeing people and eating meals, and only later realizing I’d neglected to photograph any of it. If you want to see everything that goes on, you’ll just have to come along to NETROOTS NATION 2020 IN DENVER, AUGUST 13 - 16 (but let’s say August 12 so as to include the Daily Kos/Cheers & Jeers Dinner, which you must not miss).
I’m going to show you my severely inadequate cache of people pictures this week, minus a couple that other people have and I don’t guess I can get in time, and next week, we’ll see what’s left. Maybe I’ll have scraped together a few more brain cells by then.
I posted this on Monday in another diary:
I’m trying to recall, and cannot, who told me that a bartender asked them what convention this was. The bartender said, I’ve never seen a convention like this. Someone comes in the door with their suitcase, and before they ever get to the desk, people run over and hug them!
Yep, that’s it. Come next year and get your hugs!
Every NN diary for KTK must begin with the side pockets. Indeed, every NN must begin with the side pockets. I got to town early and was able to have dinner with them on Tuesday night, an event which was visually recorded only by surveillance cameras. It turned out that the convention center in Philadelphia is adjacent to Chinatown (students of “urban redevelopment” will be unsurprised to learn that this is because a swath of Chinatown was bulldozed for this purpose, much against the will of the residents). We had many choices, but ended up at the nearby Nan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House. Mmmm, noodles.
The next morning, I ran into the pockets at the Reading Terminal Market and got a picture:
When I saw TexMex going by, at NN later in the week, I had to draft someone to take our picture, because she is so damn adorable. Lord knows, much more so than me, especially in this ghastly picture, which I show you only because you are my friends and deserve to see TexMex. Pretty obvious I hadn’t slept for like three days at that point.
Not all of you know my NYC Kos pal mconvente. He is a man of thirty-some years, with a PhD, and I am very wrong to describe him as “a great kid”, but I am an old lady and I’m sticking with that. You may have seen him in one of my local meetup diaries, with or without his identical twin brother. Like Dartagnan, who escaped any photos of mine, he’s local to Philly and that’s why we had the luck to have him with us this year.
Here’s my other favorite picture: smileycreek and peregrine kate. Look, they even coordinated their outfits telepathically.
Since I failed so badly at collecting pictures of my own, I raided Denise Oliver Velez’s Twitter feed for a few tweets you might like to see. This one is excellent. (Monica Roberts is blogger TransGriot.)
Joy Reid was everywhere, apparently. Here’s a selfie with Brainwrap:
Thanks to John M Webb for this one. I must have been no more than ten feet from him as he was recording this, but I didn’t get to meet him because I didn’t know it was him. This is a tiny sliver of the Lights for Liberty candlelight vigil on Broad Street, on Friday night after the Pub Quiz. Kudos to nomandates for pushing to assemble this and make it happen, and to TrueBlueMajority, who put on her clergy hat (well, collar, really) and created a lovely ceremony on zero notice. Me, I brought the candles, plus the lighters and the paper bobeches to protect people’s hands from hot wax. In this clip I am hidden somewhere in the back, circulating to hand out candles and light them. Many thanks to the numerous people who took the trouble to come down and participate! I was finding it unaccountably dusty out there.
Wait, wait — here’s a late contribution from TrueBlueMajority’s phone: me, her, and peregrine kate outside Tom’s Dim Sum, where we went for brunch on Sunday. Three happy friends full of soup dumplings and scallion pancakes. We are so doing this again next year, I suppose at a different restaurant closer to Denver if you insist.
All right, here is one more I am stealing from brillig’s Top Comments NN19 diary. This is the Marriott bar party on Saturday night, or anyway, some of it!
Anyone else? Pictures?
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IMPORTANT SITE NEWS: JULY IS RESET YOUR PASSWORD MONTH
Please read elfling’s diary for very useful information about how to meet this new Daily Kos requirement and make it less burdensome for yourself. We are entering “hostile foreign powers” season, and it’s important that we secure our accounts and make them harder to hijack.
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Yet a third hurricane season started June 1, and Puerto Rico is still struggling to recover.
It is Day 664 since Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico.
PLEASE FOLLOW Denise Oliver Velez and the SOS Puerto Rico group for the latest news about developments in Puerto Rico and the USVI (diary here regarding the start of another hurricane season). Denise generally collects resonant tweets at the top of her comment threads, as well, and in the APR’s thread most mornings, to make it easy to retweet. If you tweet or FB, please share something about Puerto Rico and USVI regularly.
PUERTO RICO and USVI DISASTER RELIEF DONATION LINKS
The Daily Kos community has its own project: Puerto Rico resident Bobby Neary (newpioneer) leads a small team dedicated to helping a specific rural elder who was left by the storms without power, water, a roof, or any belongings but a moldy mattress. If you like to see concrete results, this is the project for you. See newpioneer’s diaries for ways to help. See this one in particular, and this comment with photos. See also his lovely and heartbreaking poem, and his recent tribute to the island.
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